> I couldn't figure out a way to get rid of it short of multi-#including > "templates" and playing with the C preprocessor, however, and have the > nagging feeling the latter would be frowned upon by the maintainers.
Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but look at Objects/stringlib. str.format() and unicode.format() share the same implementation, using stringdefs.h and unicodedefs.h. Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com